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Sherif

@lailawrites

A Writer and Poet | Nature lover.

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Sherif
@lailawrites Mar 1, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC

Saturday Hivechess S2R6 - 3rd Place 😊

Greetings to you all! And well-done to everyone who participated in the tournament yesterday. I finished third place, which is a first. I was lucky a few of the other top players were absent/inactive…

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Sherif
@lailawrites Feb 25, 2026, 8:56 PM UTC

What do you think about cheating in chess/games generally?

I hope this post meets you all well.. Something sad-funny just happened to me and I'd really like to share and hear from fellow chessmaniacs.. I'd like to start by saying I'm a very serious person, t…

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Sherif
@lailawrites Feb 14, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC

A Good Game After Such A Sad Tournament Play

I hope y'all are doing fine, and well done to everyone who participated today. I'll start by saying I had a very sh*tty time today. I've always known myself to be someone who takes competitions very…

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Sherif
@lailawrites Dec 20, 2025, 9:09 AM UTC

Fiction: The Last Thing Mom Said to Me

(Image generated by DALL-E) The tape hiss comes first. That gritty, empty noise that kicked in immediately after the automated voice announced, “Received at twelve-forty-two PM.” Next, there's a two-…

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Sherif
@lailawrites Oct 3, 2025, 7:16 AM UTC

The Interview

I realized I was in trouble when he started talking about the blue house on Melrose Street. Not that he did say it in quite those words, not at first. We'd been going for around forty minutes, record…

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Sherif
@lailawrites Sep 19, 2025, 11:44 AM UTC

A Dance With My Final Paper

I know it's felt like forever since I've been away (haha), but life has put me on a full-blown marathon the past few weeks. Final exams, final projects, final everything. The final stretch of my fina…

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Sherif
@lailawrites Aug 7, 2025, 5:57 AM UTC

Don't Sweat It

(Image was generated with Google ImageFX) The IV bag was empty and Kamila couldn't get her hands to stop shaking long enough to hang a new one. "Code blue, room 314. Code blue, room 314." The announc…

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Sherif
@lailawrites Jul 29, 2025, 5:36 AM UTC

The Parking Ticket

Two hundred dollars. Erin stared at the gleaming orange slip taped to her windshield wiper as though it would somehow transform if she glared hard enough. But no, still two hundred f**king dollars fo…

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Sherif
@lailawrites Jul 25, 2025, 12:05 PM UTC

Living The Dream

(Image was generated by Google ImageFX) I was obsessed. God, I used to be so obsessed with scholarships it wasn't even funny anymore. My friends had stopped listening to me when I brought it up, whic…

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Sherif
@lailawrites Jul 21, 2025, 6:24 PM UTC

In the Time Before

"Miss Carter, when is Mrs. Reyes back?" I freeze mid-sentence as I scribble fractions on the board. Third time today someone has inquired about that. Third time I've had to shove down the truth that'…

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